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Refreshing the Josh Kavanagh Thrillers

UPDATED July 19, 2026: After a day or two and a few hours learning how to talk to an AI, this is the new cover for The Patriot Oath. So new, I haven’t had time to replace the old cover on the book’s Amazon page yet. That will happen later today and take time for Amazon to process before it appears.

ORIGINAL POST STARTS HERE

Here’s the final cover. I had to learn how to talk to an AI first and I’m a slow learner. But I finally got there and haven’t had time to replace the old cover on the books Amazon page yet.

“The primary reason to update a successful thriller series is to drive new sales by aligning the books with evolving design trends and online discovery habits, such as those on social platforms. This ‘rebranding’ strategy expands the target demographic and boosts visual recognition.” SOURCE: Jane Friedman

The Patriot Oath | published July 2, 2021
Never for Glory | June 23, 2023
Fiddling with Death | February 10, 2025

On July 13, 2026, orders for the series reached 7,474 eBooks, 135 print, and 1,592,394 KENP reads 

— The Patriot Oath’s future Cover Under Construction —

Earlier this month, my editor for the Josh Kavanagh Thriller series recommended a “new” website called Book Leopard, and I took a look. Impressed with what I learned from what was offered free, I decided to give it a try and paid $49 for one credit. 

I think Book Leopard offers a one-stop shop for authors to not only come up with a new book cover working with the site’s AI generator, but to provide a list of benefits that, in the past, took “me” years, months and weeks to learn while using multiple sites and never-ending research to produce.

At this time, my focus is the new covers for all three books in the series, and I’m still learning to work with their AI. The wordless cover above is for The Patriot Oath.  The text was there from the beginning, and then I asked the AI to remove the words.

I think asking the AI to do that will make it easier to add a public domain image of George Washington Crossing the Delaware, similar to how it was done on The Patriot Oath’s original cover. Most, who have read the book, may not know the image is there. It’s sort of camouflaged in the background behind the word OATH and my name. For me, that image is symbolic and readers don’t have to know it’s there.

George Washington was the first person to take the presidential oath to protect the Constitution from enemies both foreign and domestic, but he did not write it himself. The specific language of the presidential oath was drafted and proposed during the Constitutional Convention in 1787 by delegates James Madison and George Mason.

As soon as “George Washington Crossing the Delaware” is added to the background near the bottom of the new cover image above, I’ll ask Book Leopard’s AI to put the words listed below back.

A JOSH KAVANAGH THRILLER
THE PATRIOT OATH
&
LLOYD LOFTHOUSE

If that goes smoothly, George Washington will be in his boat, lurking in the shadows behind my name.

Here’s what Book Leopard offers for the price of one credit (at this time $49).

Book Leopard is an interactive site where authors/editors guide the site’s AI to generate most of what’s needed to get an already written novel’s draft ready to publish and promote. Still, their AI cannot do the work alone. The author/editor must be part of the process. I think this AI is going to help authors/editors avoid weeks, months and even years of learning, work and eye strain, and get it done in a very short period of time.

The Price of One Credit Gets All of This for One Book

·      For any Genre

·    A spectacular cover

·      An amazing description

·      A great subtitle

·      3 Kindle categories

·      3 Amazon paperback categories

·      3 categories for non-Amazon sites

·      7 search keywords

·      Attention-grabbing text for advertising

·      12 Kindle categories for targeting Amazon book ads

·      12 paperback categories for targeting Amazon book ads

·      300+ keywords for targeting Amazon book ads

·      100 ASINs for targeting Amazon book ads

Fiddling with Death is OUT!

Launching Fiddling with Death

My Contribution: there isn’t much I can do at my age to defend the U.S. Constitution against domestic enemies like Donald Trump, his fanatical MAGA cult, and foreign enemies like Putin and that 3rd generation freak in North Korea.

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Project 2025, Explained

With Traitor Trump, everything is a projection, and he’s projecting his cowardice onto others, in this case, Gov. Walz.

Adam Kinzinger: The Despicable Attacks on Walz’s Military Service

We Are Asking the Wrong Questions …

This morning, an email landed in my in-box with another unintelligent rant from Michael Moore. During his way-too-long knee jerk reaction to a 90 minute anything-but-a-debate that took place on CNN on June 27, 2024, Moore said, about halfway through, “I’m not a doctor. I could be (and hopefully am) wrong about all this. But I do have eyes. They don’t lie.”

Michael Moore, you were wrong, our eyes are deceived all the time by not showing us accurately what we are seeing. Often there is a disconnect between what we think we see, our brain, and our memories can even revise what we thought we saw.  Have you read The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, by Oliver Sacks? and/or Why eyewitnesses fail.

During Moore’s rant about what he saw, there was one name he never mentioned, Donald Trump (if the traitor’s name was there, I didn’t see it after reading the piece once and scanning it three times), who didn’t answer any of the moderator’s questions and repeated all of his fascist lies that have been repeated so many times in the last few years, I doubt anyone has been able to keep count.

After all, Traitor Trump learned from a master: Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party about repeating big lies.  “Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth”, is a law of propaganda often attributed to the Nazi Joseph Goebbels.

I didn’t watch the original live debate, that wasn’t a debate. It takes two or more people to have a debate and the only person on that stage struggling to debate was President Biden. Traitor Trump repeated his campaign slogans that are all lies and have always been lies going back to the day he came down that escalator in Trump Tower on June 16, 2015.

After the debate, I started reading the reactions and summaries about the CNN disaster that didn’t challenge Traitor Trump’s lies.

As for me, it took an effort to set aside all the panic and criticisms I was hearing and reading about President Biden and wait a few days to learn more and come to a conclusion.  I’ve learned through the decades, I turn 79 in August, that it helps to wait before reacting to something unless it’s a life and death situation like when I was a US Marine in Vietnam being shot at. We don’t have time to think then.

Moore said more shit like, “He’s 81! What do you expect? You’ll be 81 someday!”

Well, Michael Moore, I’m much closer to 81 than you are and I don’t agree with your mindless knee jerk rant.

Then on June 29, I watched this video. That is the day after the debate that wasn’t a debate, and I didn’t see the same Biden from the day before.  By then, I’d seen the worst of Biden’s performance on the 28th

Before writing this post, I also watched an unedited ProPublica interview with Joe Biden from September 2023, nine days before his interview with conservative Republican Special Counsel Robert K. Hur, who had worked in Traitor Trump’s administration before he was appointed to oversee the DOJ’s investigation into classified documents found at Biden’s Delaware home. That was no different than hiring a hungry wolf to guard a flock of sheep.

After watching the June 29th video, I wrote a poem comparing two men, although I have problems thinking one of the two is human. I’ll leave it up to anyone that reads this blog post who I think that one is.

NO NAMES

Two men close in age

One accused of crimes with no evidence

The other

Twice impeached

Guilty of rape

Guilty of fraud

A convicted felon

Two men close in age

One honorably served the people for 54 years

The other

Cheated his workers

Cheated his Secret Service agents

Cheated university students

Cheated his wives

Cheats at golf

Doesn’t always pay his bills

Two men close in age

One never accused of rape

The other

Found guilty of rape once

And 18 women have accused him

Of sexual harassment or sexual assault

One alleged victim was 13

Brags he grabs them by the pussy

Two men close in age

One stands strong with other democracies

The other

Says he fell in love with

North Korea’s Kim Jong Un,

who wants to nuke the United States,

And calls Putin a genius

For starting a brutal war

With a smaller country

Two men close in age

One practices a healthy lifestyle

Also shows off his latest reading

The other

Three years younger, is ten years older

Eating McDonald’s and meatloaf

Drinking 12 brain damaging Diet Cokes daily

Thinking exercise is bad

Has a lethal aversion to reading

Two men close in age

One sometimes gets his facts wrong

And broke 3 of his campaign promises

The other

Does not care about facts

Lying more than 30,000 times in four years

Breaking 55 of his campaign promises

Ranked the worst president ever

*****

Here are America’s Worst Presidents. Traitor Trump was ranked the #3 worst president by the 2022, Siena College’s Presidential Expert Poll, #4 by the 2021 C-Span Presidential Historians survey, and #1 by the 2024, Presidential Greatness Survey.

I also suspect Traitor Trump is allegedly responsible for Biden’s performance on June 28, 2024.  It’s not impossible.

Here’s a link to the post I wrote about that.  Did Donald Trump Sabotage the Atlanta Debate?